hieroglyphics

Examples of hieroglyphics in the following topics:

• Alexander's Empire

  • Name of Alexander the Great in Egyptian hieroglyphs (written from right to left), c. 330 BCE, Egypt; Louvre Museum.

• The Decline of Ancient Egypt

  • Egyptians continued to speak their language, but the ability to read hieroglyphics disappeared as temple priests diminished.

• The Classic Period of the Maya

  • They created a multitude of kingdoms and small empires, built monumental palaces and temples, engaged in highly developed ceremonies, and developed an elaborate hieroglyphic writing system.
  • Other important archaeological remains include the carved stone slabs usually called stelae (the Maya called them tetun, or "tree-stones"), which depict rulers along with hieroglyphic texts describing their genealogy, military victories, and other accomplishments.

• Nubia

  • In the Napatan period, Egyptian hieroglyphs were used; at this time writing seems to have been restricted to the court and temples.
  • This was an alphabetic script with twenty-three signs used in a hieroglyphic form (mainly on monumental art) and in a cursive form.

• Hatshepsut

• Ancient Egyptian Monuments

  • Decoration included reliefs (bas relief and sunken relief) of images and hieroglyphic text and sculpture, including obelisks, figures of gods (sometimes in sphinx form), and votive figures.

• The Minoans

  • The Egyptian hieroglyphs served as a model for Minoan pictographic writing, from which the famous Linear A and Linear B writing systems later developed.

• The Rise of Egyptian Civilization

  • Hieroglyphs may have first been used in this period, along with irrigation.

• Government and Trade in the Achaemenid Empire

  • Researchers were able to compare the scripts and use it to help decipher ancient languages, in this way making the Behistun Inscription as valuable to cuneiform as the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs.